When it comes to the best video games’ advancement, individuals mostly discuss about design or innovative game play techniques and the capability to create characters with supernatural ideal powers. But, we anticipate progress in those areas, while the other, less elegant and less essential parts of the game playing atmosphere can go for a long time without seeing only one amazing, or even recognizable, modification.

Luckily, some designers out there took plenty of time to do something different with those aspects, parts that are too often treated as a postscript and generally look as if they came pre-made from the same model.

In Sundown Overdrive Death does not Represent a Problem anymore thanks to Respawn

With an original look and a daring attitude, Sundown Overdrive was an unusual game at its launching. But it has a couple of excellent achievements made for it: the game play, which is an absurd but well-implemented mix of first-person experience and cool graphics, and its respawning animated design.

In most games, you are taken back to the initial steps, without style and without much to do before that. In a few moments, you go from your total loss of virtual life to choosing where you were before being killed by a massive gun coming out of nowhere. In Sundown Overdrive, unable to endure the repetitive actions – the primary objective of most games – is compensated with one of almost 20 extremely foolish respawn surprises, nearly all of them referring to popular symbols.

The respawn is never taken seriously by the game designers who do not see the urge to make something different. This is easy to understand, too. In most situations, it is probably best to get the gamers back into the course of action as easily as possible. In the more violent games, where dying numerous times is just an aspect of the whole playing experience, an elegant respawn would only make the gamer more annoyed.

Lengthy holes between instant deaths and revivals can make worse a player’s rhythm by getting him out of “the gaming zone.” But Sundown Overdrive is not a simple game where you must adhere to a certain number of steps to be followed. You leap around the dangers, smash things and you destroy everything in sight, making enough space to pitch in a little piece of entertaining advancement.

Bayonetta Converted Loading Screens into Exercising Dojos

For some time, the nearest a loading screen ever came to be an exciting thing was when someone made the decision to punch the annoying black square in the middle of the action. Then appeared Resident Evil, which hidden its boring loading time with a door opening.

After a few game designers used the empty fabric of the loading display to keep the gamer involved, no one really tried to adhere to this technique. At its very best, the loading screen provided tips on how to play the game: soothing pointers to features you may not be playing with, the benefits of certain vintage items – really primary things you completely ignored or were too focused on reaching the “skip” button to study the space around you.

And then arrived Bayonetta. This game’s loading screen actually tried to have a functioning purpose, a real objective that kept gamers involved, even while the system was at the startup up of the next slice of the playing experience.

Rather than providing you a chance to choose the next path to greatness or look for another fistful of virtual coins, Bayonetta let gamers to practice their fighting combinations in a kind of exclusive dojo during the loading screen between different segments of the game.

Third-person playing activities depend on combinations or button mashing, and for an obsolete reason the user is always required to understand the intricate details, while concentrating on his primary goal. In a battling game, the players can exercise their skills in a secondary mode separated from the rest. A stress-free atmosphere allows the gamer to understand the tactics at his own pace.

What Bayonetta did was to take that same concept to and implement it to the usual ineffective space and time where the gamer would normally sit and pay attention to the computer’s noise, while thinking about the frailty of a frightening death rate.

Bayonetta and Resident Evil have one thing in common, besides the impressive use of loading screen: the game developers who proved helpful on the first Resident Evil were the directors of the Bayonetta series too.

DiRT 2’s Primary Menu Took the Gamer into the Atmosphere Before even Playing it

An excellent main menu has terms in it, words like “Start Game”, “Continue” and “Settings.” Quite a few times, the really high-end programs have shifting images and even the headline of the game.

It is not that difficult to create a great main menu, since they are 100 % computer operated. Clickable terms that take the games to more stuff that is clickable. They are boring slides that suppress all the fun you are about to encounter. They do not need to be elegant or do anything unique. It is just the mission’s opportunity to confirm it can at least operate, if nothing else.

Having all that in mind, there are some individuals out there that actually want to doing something unique with a primary menu. The car racing simulation DiRT 2 forgoes the usual menu by putting the gamer in the center of a rally race.

The menu is made in first-person mode, from the viewpoint of the car driver as he cruises in a RV. The occasional surroundings of the rally can be observed through the window with no problem. Looking around the car gives you the choices to select your competition place on a map stretched out on a desk, observe competition videos on the RV’s own TV, or leave the game by strolling into a bedroom. The only factor it is losing is a number of intoxicated rednecks in the public, beating each other for the last chicken skin.

Walking outside the car lead to even more menu choices, but now you are in the center of the competition celebrations. There is a massive inflated air person dancing around. Race participants move from one sideshow to another. Your group parties out, awaiting the competition to begin.

The primary menu places you in the atmosphere of a little but immersive world. Changing your car does not take you to an individual garage area that may as well be sailing somewhere around. You move outside the RV and here it is – the car, just waiting patiently and prepared to be customized. Even cooler: The selection menu changes based on which town you are playing in. You are in London, so your team will also be there with you in London:

It eventually has features in an identical way as any other game menus, but additional good care and interest was given to create an experience as if you are in the center of something bigger. To feel it as if it was a true race and not just a sport game.

On the other side, developing a modern take on the often-neglected aspects of video gaming can be as easy as switching that factor into a sport itself.

Super Smash Bros. Transformed the Ending Credits into Mini-Games

Generally, the biggest advancement in games’ ending credits have made is the capability to fast-forward them or skip entirely. Excellent, you provided gamers the possibility to absolutely avoid the part where the specialists who worked for some crazy time and given up so much of their efforts to create the software get the actual credit they are entitled to.

Luckily, in 1999, a little piece of ending credit advancement was placed in the first Super Smash Bros., for Nintendo 64, but it did not completely blossomed until the lately launched Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Since defeating the initial Super Smash Bros, and a short time before the ending credits start, a focused on reticule showed up on the screen. As soon as the credits started shifting, focusing on a name would show the particular work that the specialist provided to the game in a corner in the top right.

It is a deconstructed credit series. It provides the same objective it always had, just added with a piece of creativity.

Some time later, Super Smash Bros. for GameCube, adopted the focused on reticule concept from the previous game and extended it. Now the gamer was in the cabin of a starship flying through space, shooting at the credits coming toward the ship. Same concept as before but more elegant, and now with an included aggressive element: It kept ranking. The ending credit part was now, formally, a sport in itself.

Then the considered that Super Smash Bros is a battling game, not a trip simulator, so in their Super Smash Bros for Wii U you beat the ending credits with a character you just had to play through the single-gamer strategy, unique power-up stuff and all.

To be even tougher than the end-credit killing of Melee, its Wii U version’s credit slaughter gradually shows an unlockable picture of the character you are playing with. Each amount of the picture exposed gives the gamer money they can invest in game offerings. By the most recent game in this series, the ending credits became as fulfilling as the game itself.